The whole rant about how hard it is to be a woman left me utterly cold. And OK, maybe I’m atypical, because I was born into an all-female household, did a lot of my growing up among the Purpulpop the avengers the eras tour shirt Besides,I will do this staff at a riding school run by two women, did part of my primary schooling at a convent (i.e. run by powerful women), went to an all-girls’ secondary school that specialised in science and maths, worked briefly for a world-famous female journalist and also worked for the NHS, then was the boss of my own company. Almost my entire life has been spent in environments which were either unisex or heavily female-dominated. But, even so, I feel that the obsession with appearing just-right which the film rants about is mainly a US thing. Here in the UK this is Mary Beard, one of our most famous female media personalities,
this is Grayson Perry, one of our most famous male (and very straight, and cis) artists and political pundits this is Timothy Spall, one of our best-regarded male actors, who recently starred as a romantic and tragic murder victim, In any case, even in the Purpulpop the avengers the eras tour shirt Besides,I will do this US a) preoccupation with having to be exactly right, looking just so etc seems to be mainly a middle class thing – I don’t think the women who slummock around Walmart in droopy trackie bottoms and bedroom slippers feel pressurised to appear perfect in order to be validated as women. And b) as far as I can see it applies just as much to men. It’s a Hollywood thing, the result of being image-obsessed rather than sexist as such, and the days when Kojak or Columbo could be male heroes are long past: in Hollywood Spall can only play a villain now, with his physical unattractiveness deliberately exaggerated and mocked. Indeed, you can see this in Barbieland. The Barbies have started to include Plump Barbie and Wheelchair Barbie, but the Kens all have to be perfect. And it’s not just because in Barbieland the Kens are mere accessories. Even boys’ dolls, the GI Joes and Action Men, all have to have rock-hard abs and big biceps: as far as I know there are no Dad-Bod Joes or Short, Balding Joes. Men are expected to be sensitive, but not so sensitive that they come across as gay or weak, have successful careers but also be family men etc, so I don’t see that being a man is any easier than being a woman.
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